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1 Huru har icke guldet berövats sin glans, den ädla metallen förvandlats! Heliga stenar ligga kringkastade i alla gators hörn.

2 Sions ädlaste söner som aktades lika med fint guld, huru räknas de icke nu såsom lerkärl, krukmakarhänders verk!

3 Själva schakalerna räcka spenarna åt sina ungar för att giva dem di; men dottern mitt folk har blivit grym, lik strutsen i öknen.

4 Spenabarnets tunga låder av törst vid dess gom; le späda barnen bedja om bröd, men ingen bryter sådant åt dem.

5 De som förr åto läckerheter försmäkta nu på gatorna; de som uppföddes i scharlakan måste nu ligga i dyn.

6 Så var dottern mitt folks missgärning större än Sodoms synd, Sodoms, som omstörtades i ett ögonblick, utan att människohänder kommo därvid.

7 Hennes furstar voro mer glänsande än snö, de voro vitare än mjölk, deras hy var rödare än korall, deras utseende var likt safirens.

8 Nu hava deras ansikten blivit mörkare än svart färg, man känner icke igen dem på gatorna; deras hud sitter fastklibbad vid benen, den har förtorkats och blivit såsom trä.

9 Lyckligare voro de som dräptes med svärd, än de äro, som dräpas av hunger, de som täras bort under kval, utan näring från marken.

10 Med egna händer måste ömsinta kvinnor koka sina barn för att hava dem till föda vid dottern mitt folks skada.

11 HERREN har uttömt sin förtörnelse, utgjutit sin vredes glöd; i Sion har han tänt upp en eld, som har förtärt dess grundvalar.

12 Ingen konungjorden hade trott det, ingen som bor på jordens krets, att någon ovän eller fiende skulle komma in genom Jerusalems portar.

13 För dess profeters synders skull har så skett, för dess prästers missgärningar, därför att de därinne utgöto de rättfärdigas blod.

14 Såsom blinda irra de omkring på gatorna, fläckade av blod. så att ingen finnes, som vågar komma vid deras kläder.

15 »Viken undan!» »Oren!», så ropar man framför dem; »Viken undan, viken undan, kommen icke vid den!» ja, flyktiga och ostadiga måste de vara; bland hedningarna säger man om dem: »De skola ej mer finna någon boning.»

16 HERRENS åsyn förskingrar dem, han vill icke mer akta på dem; mot prästerna visas intet undseende, mot de äldste ingen misskund.

17 Ännu försmäkta våra ögon i fåfäng väntan efter hjälp; från vårt vårdtorn speja vi efter ett folk som ändå ej kan frälsa oss.

18 Han lurar på vara steg, så att vi ej våga gå på våra gator. Vår ände är nära, vara dagar äro ute; ja, vår ande har kommit.

19 Våra förföljare voro snabbare än himmelens örnar; på bergen jagade de oss, i öknen lade de försåt för oss.

20 HERRENS smorde, han som var vår livsfläkt, blev fångad i deras gropar, han under vilkens skugga vi hoppades att få leva bland folken.

21 Ja, fröjda dig och var glad, du dotter Edom, du som bor i Us' land! Också till dig skall kalken komma; du skall varda drucken och få ligga blottad.

22 Din missgärning är ej mer, du dotter Sion; han skall ej åter föra dig bort i fångenskap. Men din missgärning, du dotter Edom, skall han hemsöka; han skall uppenbara dina synder.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 939

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939. The fact that seeing the Lord's face does not mean seeing His face, but knowing and acknowledging Him as He is in respect to His Divine attributes, of which there are many, and that people conjoined with Him by love know Him and in that way see His face, can be seen from the following passages:

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me... ...When you come to see the face of Jehovah... (Isaiah 1:11-12)

My heart said..., "Seek my face. Your face, Jehovah, I am seeking." (Psalms 27:8)

We will shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His face with confession. (Psalms 95:1-2)

My soul thirsts... for the living God. When shall I come to see the face of God? ...yet shall I confess to Him the salvation of His countenance. (Psalms 42:2, 5)

They shall not see My face empty-handed. (Exodus 23:15)

...to come... to placate the face of Jehovah. (Zechariah 8:21-22, cf. Malachi 1:9)

Make Your face shine upon Your servant. (Psalms 31:16)

Who will show us any good? Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, Jehovah. (Psalms 4:6)

They shall walk, O Jehovah, in the light of Your countenance. (Psalms 89:15)

...O God, cause Your face to shine, that we may be saved! (Psalms 80:3, 7, 19)

God be merciful to us and bless us. May He cause His face to shine upon us. (Psalms 67:1)

Jehovah bless you and keep you; Jehovah make His face shine upon you and be merciful to you; Jehovah lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. (Numbers 6:24-26)

You hide them in the secret place of Your countenance... (Psalms 31:20)

You have set... our hidden secret in the light of Your countenance. (Psalms 90:8)

(Jehovah) said (to Moses), "My countenance will go... (Moses) said..., "If Your countenance does not go..., do not bring us down from here." (Exodus 33:14-15)

The bread on the table in the Tabernacle was called [literally] "the bread of faces" (Exodus 25:30, Numbers 4:7).

[2] We are often told, too, that Jehovah hid His face or turned His face away, as in the following:

...for (their) wickedness I have hidden My face from (them). (Jeremiah 33:5, cf. Ezekiel 7:22)

Your sins have hidden (God's) face from you... (Isaiah 59:2)

The face of Jehovah... will no longer regard them. (Lamentations 4:16)

(Jehovah) will hide His face from them..., according as they have made their works evil. (Micah 3:4)

You hid Your face... (Psalms 30:7, cf. 44:24; 104:29)

I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them... I will surely hide My face... because of all the evil which they have done... (Deuteronomy 31:17-18)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 8:17; Ezekiel 39:23, 28-29; Deuteronomy 32:20.

[3] In an opposite sense, the face of Jehovah symbolizes anger and aversion, because an evil person turns away from the Lord, and when he turns away, it seems to him as though the Lord had turned away and was angry, as is clear from the following passages:

...I have set My face against this city for its evil... (Jeremiah 21:10, cf. 44:11)

I will set My face against that man and... devastate him... (Ezekiel 14:7-8)

I will set My face against them... and... fire shall devour them..., when I set My face against them. (Ezekiel 15:7)

...(he) who eats any blood, I will set My face against that soul... (Leviticus 17:10)

At the rebuke of Your countenance they perished. (Psalms 80:16)

The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil... (Psalms 34:16)

...I send an angel before you... Beware of his face..., for he will not endure your transgression. (Exodus 23:20-21)

Let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee from Your countenance. (Numbers 10:35)

(I saw one sitting on the throne) from whose face the earth and heaven fled away. (Revelation 20:11)

That no one can see the Lord as He is in Himself, as we said above, is apparent from the following:

(Jehovah said to Moses,) "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live." (Exodus 33:18-23)

That people nevertheless saw the Lord and lived, because He appeared by means of an angel, is apparent from Genesis 32:30, 1 Judges 13:22-23, 2 and elsewhere.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

2. Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God!" But his wife said to him, "If Jehovah had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time."

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.